{"id":7912,"date":"2019-10-08T12:14:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T19:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hopeservices.org\/?p=7912"},"modified":"2019-10-08T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T21:40:12","slug":"amy-and-john-worthy-recipients-of-the-larry-schott-humanitarian-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hopeservices.org\/news\/amy-and-john-worthy-recipients-of-the-larry-schott-humanitarian-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy and John: Worthy Recipients of the Larry Schott Humanitarian Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Larry Schott Humanitarian Award was established by Gene and Dianne Ravizza to honor a Hope client\/family member, volunteer, or staff who embodies Larry\u2019s traits of treating others with gentleness, respect, and fairness. Dianne was Larry\u2019s sister and a Hope Services board member. She introduced Larry to Hope Services, and he became a trustee and supporter of Hope Services and other non-profits. Hope Services is proud of both of our award winners!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2018 Recipient: Amy Colendich<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Amy is a vibrant, animal-loving, generous-hearted 29-year-old woman. She\u2019s been a Hope client in Santa Cruz since 2012. In recent years our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopeservices.org\/how-we-help\/day-services\/emcc-day-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">EMCC program<\/a> has opened up opportunities for Amy to explore and expand upon her talents, interests, and skills. Amy has been diligently working at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hope-thrift.org\/locations\/watsonville\/\" target=\"_blank\">HopeTHRIFT in Watsonville<\/a>, creating pieces in her much-loved knitting class, and developing her photography and videography. She volunteers at Santa Cruz Public Libraries, the SPCA, Wilder Ranch, and the Homeless Garden Project. She has also read to preschoolers at Calvary Preschool. Amy enjoys volunteering and being a part of the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2017 Recipient: John Mark Robinson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>John is a gentle man who has worked at Hope for two years as our first peer counselor. He\u2019s been involved in the disabled community for many years as an advocate and teacher of independent living skills. John works closely with the counseling center\u2019s outreach program. He describes himself as a \u201cfriend,\u201d but he\u2019s much more. John provides individual support and mentoring to clients who need a listener, but not necessarily formal counseling. He has represented Hope at the second annual African American Conference and Resource Fair at San Andreas Regional Center. John will be co-leading the October client leadership training, an innovative Hope program designed to teach self-advocacy skills. It also helps to prepare people to work on boards and community advisory groups.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his free time John serves as a deacon at his church, making it welcoming and comfortable for members and guests. He co-leads the Celebrate Recovery Program, which helps people with \u201churts, habits and co-dependent relationships.\u201d He\u2019s also a team leader at the \u201cKids Club\u201d program. John studied Public Administration at San Jose State University and East Bay State University, earning a BA and a master\u2019s. John believes that his study of psychology makes him well-prepared to support Hope clients.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to Amy and John!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Larry Schott Humanitarian Award was established by Gene and Dianne Ravizza to honor a Hope client\/family member, volunteer, or staff who embodies Larry\u2019s traits of treating others with gentleness, respect, and fairness. Dianne was Larry\u2019s sister and a Hope Services board member. She introduced Larry to Hope Services, and he became a trustee and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":7911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[670,663,584,102,677,222,664,99,117,674,662,665,205,676,673,221,167,98,439,675],"class_list":["post-7912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpautop"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v14.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Amy and John: Worthy Recipients of the Larry Schott Humanitarian Award | Hope Services<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Project SEARCH success: how Catalina 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